The Night

La notte, feature film, drama, Italy, France, 1961

DIRECTED BY: Michelangelo Antonioni

The Night

CAST:
Marcello Mastroianni (Giovanni Pontano),
Jeanne Moreau (Lidia),
Monica Vitti (Valentina Gherardini),
Bernhard Wicki (Tommaso Garani),
Rosy Mazzacurati (Rosy)

SCRIPT:
Michelangelo Antonioni,
Tonino Guerra,
Ennio Flaiano

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Gianni Di Venanzo

MUSIC:
Giorgio Gaslini

EDITING:
Eraldo Da Roma

Synopsis:
The story is about a married couple – a successful writer, Giovanni Pontano, and his wife, Lidia. We see them on an afternoon visit to a dying friend in a hospital, at a party for Pontano’s newest novel, in a house of a wealthy industrialist and finally in their own nightly adventures - Lidia roams the streets of Rome, while her husband has an affair with the industrialist’s daughter…This film won the Golden Bear at the Berlin film festival.

b/w, 122'

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